DRINK IN PEACE: SONG FOR MY SISTER, VALENTINE, BY PHOEBE LEGERE

Social Media post by Phoebe Legere:

Thank you to everyone who came to my show last Saturday at the Phoenicia Playhouse My sister Valentine Legere was my hero. She passed away recently. This song is for her.https://phoebelegere.bandcamp.com/.../drink-in-peace-song... photo: Tania Barricklo

Drink in Peace (Song for My Sister)

© Phoebe Legere

Val, Today we said goodbye to you

Bro, I can't believe it's true.

That's the final curtain, Lay down your hurt

Coz your flyin to a place where nobody has to work.

I remember the old days, the American legion.

We'd raise a glass to the ones that had fallen.

You knew the stories, where the bodies were buried.

Now you're a story and we don't know where your goin.

I hope the Heaven looks like Hometown USA.

I hope that Heaven looks like Medfield 1968.

I hope that Heaven's got weed, and crystal streams

I hope that Heaven is a place where we can...

Drink in Peace, Drink in Peace; Drink in Peace, Drink in Peace;

Drink in Peace, Drink in Peace; Drink in Peace, Drink in Peace;

There's something sacred 'bout a drinkin buddy,

Down by the Creek, Time gets kinda muddy,

Takin Chances, Insane Episodes:

Ooo Wee.....That was close!

So let's raise a glass to Val and Fun,

To the Gods of Medfield, who never grow up,

The ghost of Val says let's get the party started

Time is a Slut,

Heaven's where the heart is

I hope the Heaven looks like Hometown USA.

I hope that Heaven looks like Medfield 1968.

I hope that Heaven's got weed, and crystal streams

I hope that Heaven is a place where we can...

Drink in Peace, Drink in Peace; Drink in Peace, Drink in Peace;

Drink in Peace, Drink in Peace; Drink in Peace, Drink in Peace;

SOLO

I hope that Heaven's got weed, and crystal streams

I hope that Heaven is a place where we can...

Drink in Peace, Drink in Peace; Drink in Peace, Drink in Peace;

Drink in Peace, Drink in Peace; Drink in Peace, Drink in Peace....(repeat)

Christina Varga & Phoebe Legere Celebrate Varga's Phoenicia Festival of the Arts

 FROM PHOEBE LEGERE'S INSTAGRAM (@PhoebeLegere) :

As good as it gets - Christina Varga and Phoebe Legere pose with wearable art of the endangered Creatures of the Hudson River in front of the #Shandaken #eagle that once crowned Grand Central Station in #NYC.

Foundation for New American Art Team Leader Phoebe Legere is on left wearing her Rainbow Sturgeon and traditional beadwork. CEO & #star of Phoenicia Arts Christina Varga is on right wearing the Hudson River starfish. Stay tuned ! The Hudson River Flotilla of the Animals is coming up the river in October!

Thank you for this superb photo Amberly Campbell - Assistant Deputy, Town of #Kingston #newyork @govkathyhochul

Thank you @nyscouncilonthearts for supporting our afterschool programs and community arts building across the state.

PHOEBE LEGERE SHINES AT PHOENICIA FESTIAL OF THE ARTS IN MULTIPLE ROLES

 MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST PHOEBE LEGERE WAS THE HIGHLIGHT OF THIS YEAR's PHOENICIA FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS!

PHOEBE LEGERE:

* Performed her Bee Spangled Banner 

* Starred in a New Film by Celebrated Filmmaker Gustavo Von Ha

* Performed to A Standing Room Only Crowd At the Phoenicia Playhouse

* Led The Phoenicia's Shandaken Eagle Day Parade with her Incredible Wearable Sculpture Art of Endangered Sea Creatures (photo above of Phoebe and Christina Varga)

PHOEBE LEGERE'S WEARABLE ART SCULPTURES OF ENDANGERED SEA CREATURES WERE FEATURED IN THE VARGA ART GALLERY & PRESENTED IN THE PHOENICIA ARTS FESTIVAL PARADE

THE WISE WOMEN PANEL WITH PHOEBE LEGERE

YOU WILL LOVE THIS REEL! JUST A FEW HIGHLIGHTS FROM PHOEBE LEGERE 's AMAZING UNIVERSE OF TALENT

 

WATCH THIS REEL ON YOUTUBE:

https://youtu.be/Mwf_ka3n6wg?si=F2ZwjeDxyLNjWERr

Phoenicia Arts Festival * Phoebe Legere Stars * Gustavo Von Ha Film * Phoebe Performs at Phoenicia Playhouse

 THIS WEEKEND! PHOEBE LEGERE * GUSTAVO VON HA * CHRISTINA VARGA * 

PHOENICIA ARTS FESTIVAL 

IN PHOENICIA, NEW YORK 

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 August 14: Thank you Chris Marino, host of I HEART radio "Merino in the Morning" | Q92 - Thank you! THANK YOU! for mentioning me, the @foundationfornewamericanart and the @phoeniciafestivalofthearts on your show - to your million+ listeners this morning! Wow. I'm so honored! 

Thanks for telling everybody I'm playing LIVE on August 22 - Saturday night - 6:30 PM at the Phoenicia Playhouse.

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Phoebe Legere Stars in North American Premiere of “Everyone Dies Trying to Make a Masterpiece” at the 4th Annual Phoenicia Festival of the Arts

 The multidisciplinary artist performs live, headlines a wearable-sculpture parade, and joins a panel on creativity and the sacred at the festival's first international edition, August 21–23

PHOENICIA, N.Y. — The 4th Annual Phoenicia Festival of the Arts will go international this August, and multidisciplinary artist Phoebe Legere will be at the center of the celebration — on screen, on stage, and in the street.

Founder and curator Christina Varga has assembled a weekend of film, visual art, performance, and music across the Catskills village of Phoenicia, August 21–23. Legere's nonprofit, the Foundation for New American Art, a 501(c)(3), is a major supporter of this year's festival.

A Horror-Fantasy Filmed at Yaddo

Last year, Legere directed The Gender Symphony, which headlined the Phoenicia Film Festival. This year she stars in Everyone Dies Trying to Make a Masterpiece, a horror-fantasy from Brazilian artist and director Gustavo Von Ha, filmed at Yaddo, the storied artists' colony in Saratoga Springs where the two met.

Seven of Legere's songs appear on the film's soundtrack. On screen, she plays death metal guitar inside Yaddo Castle, surrounded by priceless works of art, standing on the very throne where Truman Capote was photographed for his first book cover.

The film has its North American premiere Saturday, August 22, at the historic Phoenicia Playhouse. Legere opens the screening with a live set on guitar, accordion, and piano, performing songs featured in the film.

A Weekend of Art, Parade, and Panel

The festival opens Friday with a major art installation at 52 Main Street, the former hardware store beside the tubing outfitter. On Saturday morning, Legere leads the Shandaken Eagle Parade wearing her giant wearable sculptures of endangered Hudson River animals, followed that evening by her performance and the film's premiere at the Phoenicia Playhouse.

On Sunday morning, Legere joins a Wise Women panel at 52 Main Street alongside legendary performance artist Linda Montano and renowned plant-medicine teacher Susun Weed, speaking on “Creation and the Supernatural.” The weekend also features short films, the Phoenicia Film Festival awards, live performances, and artists and filmmakers from near and far.

The festival opens with a gong ceremony, joined by local cultural leaders — including Christina Varga — singing Legere's song “Bee Spangled Banner,” the National Anthem of the Pollinators.

Event Details

What:  4th Annual Phoenicia Festival of the Arts

When:  August 21–23, 2026

Where:  Phoenicia Playhouse and 52 Main Street, Phoenicia, N.Y.

Premiere:  Everyone Dies Trying to Make a Masterpiece, Saturday, August 22, Phoenicia Playhouse, preceded by a live performance by Phoebe Legere

“This festival is a celebration of everything I believe art can do — bring people together, honor the wild world around us, and touch the supernatural. I'm so grateful to Christina Varga for building something this bold, and to be part of it in so many ways this year.”

— Phoebe Legere

About Phoebe Legere

Phoebe Legere is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and performer whose work spans music, film, and visual art. She is the founder of the Foundation for New American Art, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit supporting new work in the arts.

About the Phoenicia Festival of the Arts

Founded by Christina Varga, the Phoenicia Festival of the Arts brings film, visual art, performance, and music to the Catskills village of Phoenicia, N.Y. Its 2026 edition marks the festival's first international program.

Phoenicia Film Festival of the Arts Features Phoebe Legere in New Gustavo Von Ha Film

PHOEBE LEGERE HEADLINES PHOENICIA FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS STARRING IN NEW FILM BY GUSTAVO VON HA, "Everyone Dies Trying To Make A Masterpiece"

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Phoebe Legere Headlines Panel At Gonzofest With Will Thompson, Grandson of Hunter S. Thompson

 

July 19th. 3 PM. I am standing with Will Thompson, Hunter Thompson's grandson. Kind eyes. A beautiful smile.

PHOEBE LEGERE: 

"I was at Howl Happening for #gonzofest- on a panel called Friends of Hunter S. Thompson. I tried to describe the paradox of Hunter - a devastatingly funny, terrifyingly serious man.

"I tried to describe the paradox of a man who pursued absolute freedom with the ferocity of a revolutionary and the tenderness of a poet.

"I tried to describe the paradox of a man who could make you laugh until dawn and break your heart before breakfast.

"I tried to describe the paradox of a writer whose laughter was inseparable from his fury, ...whose comedy cut through the Great American Spectacle to expose the machinery of power....whose satire stripped the paint from America's democratic illusions.

"Not the myth. Not the outlaw. Not the Gonzo icon.

The man who once treated me as an equal. Who showed me what fearless friendship and love feel like.

I also exhibited paintings I made while I was living at Owl Farm.

"Time is a strange thing. It takes what we love. Then, like a dark obsidian mirror - like the obsidian knives once used by Aztec priests to cut out the hearts of victims - the past walks back into the room."

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